3. Wow! No more PAT? If they go straight to commercial after a TD, there won't be any instant replays. Not sure this works.

4. Interesting and not terribly flattering snapshot of BHO. I think most politicians end up feeling sorry for themselves, because they don't get much respect. GW Bush could never feel sorry for himself this way, however, because he wasn't poor and he isn't black. BHO really is convinced people dislike him for illegitimate reasons; he can't face the fact that he is an unusually incompetent leader and a truly awful manager. He just likes to read vague speeches from a teleprompter and then go watch football. Why is everybody so MAD at him? Ooh, look, a touchdown.

5. Which is a greater infringement on my rights and human dignity: Having to show an ID before I vote, or having to pass a program of state indoctrination before I am allowed to marry? Apparently, the program of state indoctrination thing is just fine, at least in Colorado.

23. U.S. has made it increasingly difficult to start a new business. Is this just perverse? No, existing businesses are willing to pay legislators to do this. SarbOx, Dodd-Frank, ACA, OSHA, EEOC, EPA, ....all these things make it nearly impossible to start a new business. Protecting the profits of existing business. I wish Prof. Stigler were not quite so right.

27. Lots of people believe this: Lying is fine if it reveals the truth. So, not only is lying permitted; it may be required. My proposal would be to use the truth to reveal the truth, but I'm old-fashioned.

"The coverage of the leaks, Obama complained, paints “a picture of a rogue agency out there running around and breaking a whole bunch of laws and engaging in a ‘domestic spying program’ that isn’t accurate. But what that does is it synchs up with a public imagination that sees Big Brother looming everywhere.”"

Not sure why his explanation that NSA was just doing what the politicians had intended it to do should make us feel like Big Brother isn't looming everywhere.

Marriage is a bit like drinking, driving, flying aircraft, and owning firearms - society pays a heavy toll when people do it badly. You might call it indoctrination when people are told they should wear a hat when they go out in a snowstorm (why? not wearing a hat is a victimless crime - leave my freedom alone man!), but nudges great and small have their place.